Hoping to help some newbs avoid some serious banking pain.

Are you thinking of putting sparkly hearts on the document to demonstrate your creativity, is your pain point the down payment and you're trying to navigate that with seller financing, is the issue that the in-place tenants aren't paying rent? 

@Nathan Frost are there any of them that stick out as a pain but also have some equity?

In the old days those we squeaked by on were sold with seller financing @ 10-12% to mitigate the $$$ pain & suffering. 

Unrelated debt financed income (UDFI) in an SDIRA can be a pain.

That usually ends in a lot of pain. 25 years of doing this, never even a deposit asked for on the front end. 

Try to figure out what their biggest pain points are and remove them.

I feel your pain, man, and I too wish I had never gone with CrestCore.

I live in BC but own a duplex in Ontario, have a property manager, but the tenants on the one side I inherited with the purchase 3 years ago, and they have been a pain ever since, and below market rent too - this just may be my opportunity to get them out.

That w2 still does not limit you to things like the short term rental loophole for instance, which can help you offset those painful CA taxes.